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TIL: Ruth Wilson played her real-life grandmother in the BBC drama Mrs Wilson. Alison Wilson was the third of four wives of former MI6 officer Alexander Wilson. After his death in 1963, Alison discovered another wife of her husband's. Alison died in 2005 without knowing he had had two further wives.

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voM7 TIL of Dr. Howard Jones, who in 1978 was forced into retirement due to rigid age restrictions for surgeons at Johns Hopkins. Rather than end his medical career, Jones moved to Virginia, where in 1981 at the age of 70, he performed the first IVF case in the U.S. He died in 2015 at the age of 104.
0wojp TIL Cambodia has never experienced severe famine in its modern history other than during Pol Pots "Super Great Leap Forward"
xV8VB TIL of the ancient Greek stoic philosopher Chrysippus of Soli, who initiated the success of Stoicism. He died of laughter at the age of 73 after witnessing a donkey eating his figs.
0wlZN TIL David Gilmour's 2016 performance at the Pompeii amphitheater was the first live performance with an audience since 79 A.D.
Y77PA TIL about the horned tortoise, a mid-sized turtle that survived until 1000-800BC. She convergently evolved a tail club like ankylosaurs